Every civilization has some story or legend of creatures half man and half beast. Indigenous native peoples around the world held beliefs about shamans and witch doctors who could transform themselves into animals. The ancient Egyptians worshiped a whole pantheon of animal-headed gods. The superstitious folk of medieval Europe believed that a witch or a gypsy could curse a man to become a werewolf by night. Pacific islanders told tales of men changing into sharks. Certain African peoples feared leopard men. Coming from all over the world and from every culture, werebeast legends naturally vary. Among the ways said to become a werewolf include being bitten by a werewolf, being bitten by a normal wolf, a potion or curse from a gypsy or a witch, a family curse, a genetic disorder, drinking rainwater from the paw print of a wolf, wearing an enchanted pelt made from wolfskin, through a pact with Satan or a demon, through the act of cannibalism, etc. Some werewolves have no memory or control over their change while others do. Some change only by the light of a full moon while others can change at any time. Some werewolves look like normal wolves, some look like giant wolves, and still others are mutant man-beasts. Some are solitary and some live and hunt in packs or clans. Herein are gathered a number of tales portraying the glorious and bestial nature of the werewolf. There are horror, sci-fi, Gothic, cyber, fairy tale and fantasy stories and poems that embrace the essence of the beast, told by an assortment of scribes with diverse styles and voices. Now the Full Harvest Moon is rising and the soft wail of the autumnal wind begins…

Mark of the Beast

Literature & Fiction

Chaosium Inc

Scott David Aniolowski

Genre Fiction

Chaosium

The Legacy of the Reanimator collects the original serialized H.P. Lovecraft story, Herbert West Reanimator along with it s two sequels and a bevy of short stories from some of the most renowned Lovecraftian writers. Details of Herbert West s life from childhood to death and beyond can be found within The Legacy of the Reanimator. Reanimation. The process of bringing life to that which is dead. It is well known that the tow-headed fiend Herbert West came close to perfecting the process within his lifetime. It is also well known that the reanimated limbs, parts, and minions that he had created over the years eventually came back to haunt him and dismember his body. However, Herbert West didn t die. Well...yes he did. The problem is he didn t stay dead. He was brought back in two round robins edited by Robert m. Price. The first was Herbert West-Reanimated followed by Herbert West Reincarnated. These were published in old issues of Crypt of Cthulhu, and are terribly hard to get a hold of...until now. The Contents of this anthology include: Thought He Was a Goner by Christine Morgan Herbert West in Love by Molly Tanzer Herbert West Reanimator by H.P. Lovecraft The Horror on the Freighter by Richard Lee Byers A Man Called West by Ron Shiflet and Glynn Owen Barrass Herbert West Reanimated a round robin by Robert M. Price, Peter H. Cannon, Will Murray, Donald R. Burleson, and Charles Hoffman Charnel House by Tim Curran The Crypt in Key West by David Bernard Herbert West Reincarnated a round robin by Rod Heather, Brian McNaughton, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Robert M. Price, C.J. Henderson, and Michael Cisco Cruel Heaven by Rick Lai Blood and Guts in High School by Ed Morris

Legacy of the Reanimator (Call of Cthulhu Fiction)

Will Murray

C.J. Henderson

Michael Cisco

Robert M. Price

Brian M. Sammons

Tim Curran

Brian McNaughton

Christine Morgan

Peter Rawlik

Molly Tanzer

Edward Morris

Joseph S. Pulver

Don R. Burleson

Peter H. Cannon

H.P.Lovecraft

Chaosium, Inc.

With its clear visuals and hard-won information, this guide has saved my bacon on more than one occasion! Ernest P. Wilderbeast, Visiting Professor of Preternatural Studies Miskatonic University
 Weird shapes in the park? Odd rumbling noises in the basement? A lurking dread in the kitchen?
 Bad dreams involving strange adventures and bizarre creatures?
 Identifying the lurking horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos is never an easy task, so researchers need all the help they can get don t leave home without the Field Guide!
 An essential spotter s guide for the budding and experienced preternaturalist.
 Accurate and complete 53 Lovecraftian creatures categorized and detailed Full color illustrations Size comparison charts Habitat, distribution, and life cycle notes How to distinguish similar-seeming entities Observer warnings Bibliography and recommended reading list
 Illustrations and descriptions from the Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle based upon the creations of H.P. Lovecraft.

S. Petersen's Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors: A Field Observer's Handbook of Preternatural Entities and Beings from Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Lynn Willis

Mike Mason

Sandy Petersen

Gaming

Pulp Cthulhu is a game of two-fisted adventure, weird science, dark deeds, and brave heroes. With this book, some roleplaying dice, and the Call of Cthulhu Rulebook, you have everything you need to adventure and explore games set in the pulp genre. Tired of your investigators dying in quick succession when jaunting around the world in a desperate bid to save humanity? Wishing that sometimes your investigator could make a stand instead of hiding and waiting for the eldritch horror to pass? Pulp Cthulhu ups the ante and provides you with tougher, more capable heroes ready to take on the villainous machinations of the Cthulhu Mythos!
 Here you will find an adapted character generation system, rules for psychic powers, sanity, augmented skills, and weird science, as well as tips for Keepers on developing and running pulp-style games. Also, you will find information on the Pulps themselves and the 1930s era when America was in the grip of the Great Depression and on the road to World War II. A collection of pulp villains and monsters, and a range of pulp organizations provide the Keeper with a firm basis for running pulp style scenarios and campaigns. Four action-packed scenarios round out the book, getting your Pulp Cthulhu games started with a bang.
 The guidance in this book means that you can apply the Pulp Cthulhu rules to any setting and time period, enabling Keepers to bring the flavor and action of pulp to the classic 1920s or modern-day eras, as well as anywhere else they see fit.
 A Time For Heroes And A Time For Adventure!

Pulp Cthulhu (Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying)

Paul Fricker

Scott Dorward

Jeff Tidball

James Lowder

Wolfgang Baur

Matt Sanderson

Alan Bligh

Glyn White

Dan Kramer

Humor & Entertainment

The most merciful thing in the world, I believe is humanity's failure to fully conceive the cosmical horrors we've yet to reveal, and which up until now I have tried to conceal. The iconic H.P. Lovecraft 1928 story, The Call of Cthulhu, is now a children's book. Seamlessly and gracefully told in anapestic tetrameter by "genius poet-artist" RJ Ivankovic. The late Professor Angell's research has been discovered by his grand-nephew, Francis Wayland Thurston. Francis delves into the papers and discovers a bas-relief depicting an odd creature with an octopoid head, spurring him to read on. He learns of the raid led by Inspector Legrasse and the voyage of the Vigilant, captained by Gustaf Johansen. This glorious full color 102-page adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft story was written and illustrated by R.J. Ivankovic.

H.P. Lovecraft's the Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers

R.J. Ivankovic

Fantasy

MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY is a small, seemingly typical New England college nestled in the bosom of conservative Arkham, Massachusetts. A poor cousin to such hallowed institutions as Harvard, Brown, and Princeton (the term Ivy League won t come into use until 1936), Miskatonic nonetheless offers coveted degrees in a wide variety of subjects and boasts high academic standards. 
Devotees of the Cthulhu Mythos and long time players of Call of Cthulhu know the name well, and greet it with a mixture of fondness and dread. A small, quiet institution of higher learning, Miskatonic serves as the home of many of H. P. Lovecraft s greatest protagonists, or as the staging ground for daring expeditions into the unknown. 
As a symbol of reason, learning, and science, the school represents all that is good, true, and pure in modern civilization the us to the insidious, alien them of the Cthulhu Mythos. Although Miskatonic is mentioned or figures prominently in most of the stories that form the backbone of the Call of Cthulhu game, the college itself remains as ill-defined as many of beasties lurking in the pages of Lovecraft s fiction. While monsters that never shamble into view are often scarier than the ones we can see, Miskatonic University and the professors who walk its halls of ivy and alabaster are part of our normal waking world, and can therefore stand up to the light of day. 
Keepers running Call of Cthulhu games need to bring Miskatonic into sharp focus, whether their campaigns are set entirely on the sleepy campus or only visit it briefly. Who at Miskatonic can investigators count on to believe their outlandish tales? Just what secrets are and aren t kept in the world famous Orne Library? What might your investigators bump into while finding out? Miskatonic University offers some answers, scrutinizing familiar ground with a scientist s vision and a librarian s obsession with detail.

Miskatonic University: A Sourcebook (Call of Cthulhu Horror Roleplaying)

Sam Johnson

Although skeptics claim that the Necronomicon is a fantastic tome created by H. P. Lovecraft, true seekers into the esoteric mysteries of the world know the truth: The Necronomicon is the blasphemous tome of forbidden knowledge written by the mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred. Even today, after attempts over the centuries to destroy any and all copies in any language, some few copies still exist, secreted away. Within this book you will find stories about the Necronomicon, different versions of the Necronomicon, and two essays on this blasphemous tome. Now you too may learn the true lore of Abdul Alhazred.

The Necronomicon: Selected Stories and Essays Concerning the Blasphemous Tome of the Mad Arab (Call of Cthulhu Horror Fiction, 6034) (Call of Cthulhu Fiction Series, 6034)

JOHN BRUNNER

Robert A. Silverberg

frederik-pohl

Contemporary

The Silver Twilight is a secretive, international order dedicated to the destruction of the human race. As brave investigators, you must piece together passages from esoteric books, shards of strange artifacts, and puzzling letters to discover the Silver Twilight s loathsome goals. 
Shadows of Yog-Sothoth is a modestly-sized campaign of seven scenarios. During the course of play the investigators penetrate the outer layers of a secret sinister occult organization led by the lords of the Silver Twilight. Beginning in Boston they investigate an organization in New York, run afoul of a coven in Scotland, roam the desert of the American southwest, vacation off the coast of Maine, and explore the mysteries of the South Pacific. 
In addition to the campaign, this book includes two bonus scenarios. The People of the Monolith introduces the mysteries of the Cthulhu Mythos, and no harm can come to the investigators except through insanity. As such, is perfect for introducing new players to the wonders of Call of Cthulhu. 
The other bonus scenario, The Warren, presents an unsettling challenge for even experienced players.

Shadows of Yog-Sothoth: A Global Campaign to Save Mankind (Call of Cthulhu Horror Roleplaying)

So a warning to all, for what it is worth: when the monsters arise they will conquer the earth. The famous H.P. Lovecraft story Dagon is gracefully retold in anapestic tetrameter and illustrated in a darkly whimsical style by genius poet-artist R.J. Ivankovic. A sailor escapes in a lifeboat after his ship is attacked by a German raider during World War I. He soon finds himself in more bizarre peril, stranded in a dark, stinking mire on the edge of a mammoth pit. Venturing into the pit, he discovers a monolith covered in weird hieroglyphics and something stranger still that crawls from the slime a creature that may be the vanguard of a vast and monstrous invading army from the depths of the sea. This glorious full-color adaptation is R.J. Ivankovic's follow-up to the popular H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers, also available from Chaosium.

H.P. Lovecraft's Dagon for Beginning Readers

LOS ANGELES IN THE 1920s was a fast-growing, fast-moving city that encompassed all that was great and all that was rotten in America. Racial, ethnic, and religious melting pots presaged what the whole country would become by the end of the century. L.A. nonetheless clung to a veneer of White Protestantism more in line with farm-belt states in the Midwest. The newly rich built pleasure palaces in her hills and on her beaches, while recent immigrants and the descendants of the first humans who walked the land huddled together in filthy shantytowns. These resembled the most squalid parts of the undeveloped world. 
Philanthropists endowed the city with impressive monuments and dreams of a utopian society, while greedy businessmen and industrialists crushed the labor movement and embroiled themselves in scandals that rocked the nation. Celebrated movie stars worked and played before the eyes of the world, while rumrunners and racketeers plied their trade behind the scenes in the land of noir, hand-in-hand with crooked cops and two-faced politicians. Eastern sophisticates dismissed the city as an abode of the frivolous and the nouveau riche, yet underneath it all coursed an energy at once vibrant and unwholesome. 
Los Angeles was a place where anyone could reinvent himself, and multitudes did at a price. It was also a place where dark and blasphemous secrets infested every level of society, belying the carefree and enviable lifestyle broadcast to the world. For behind the glitz and glamour of Tinseltown, primordial, inhuman forces and their twisted minions worked to undermine the very foundations of sanity.
SECRETS OF LOS ANGELES is an informative resource for Call of Cthulhu roleplaying. Here are facts, legends, and rumors of the people, places, and events that made 1920s Los Angeles the exciting place it was.

Secrets of Los Angeles: A Guidebook to the City of Angels in the 1920s (Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying)

Peter Aperlo

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